SATB/brass quintet /organ/ timpani & percussion (1player) / harp or a version for strings, harp, timpani, perc. and a third option for SATB/orchestra; U.S. Publisher, Alliance Music; Duration 11.5 minutes COMPOSER NOTES: This work is a celebration of America’s musical roots, arranged in a medley format. I set the work with a secular version (American […]

Carmina Pax   Publisher:  www.zrstroope.com 30-minute choral/orchestral work in seven movements, each encountering a different aspect of conflict and peace. Premiered by the Arlington Master Chorale in Arlington, Texas; performance at Carnegie Hall  with the composer conducting; concert by the Master Singers of Eau Claire, Wisconsin (Gary Schwartzhoff, conductor); among many others in the United […]

SATB/piano (opt. wind ensemble or orchestra); BASIC LIBRARY, J.W. Pepper; US Publisher:Alliance Music Publ.#475; Duration 4.5 minutes. NOTES FROM THE COMPOSER This is a study of universal human emotions. Suffering, anger, self-pity, frustration – to a greater or lesser degree – is common to all human beings. This work captures five very different, but intertwined emotions: […]

SPECTRA (Nature’s Eternal Sunrise) SATB/orchestra or SATB/wind ensemble (band); Duration 4’35” Premiered 2019 “Fountains of life! Eternal sunrise! Radiant white beams of light, And prisms on the crystal rocks. Mountains and prairies, The meadows and valleys, Flush of alpenglow, All nature rejoices! Snow is melting is music, singing stream bankfull of melodies rising with rhythm […]